TAVES – Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show

Our great distributor ‘The Gramophone‘ in Canada will be participating in the TAVES show at the King Edward Hotel on November 1, 2 and 3rd, 2013 – downtown Toronto.

Brian Taylor at ‘The Gramophone’ tells us:
“We will be showing the Marten Django XL along with Luxman amplification and their new DSD DAC along with Esoteric CD/SACD player, the AMG Turntable and Tonearm, Benz Cartridge, Musical Surroundings Nova Phono Stage and Audiodesk Systeme Vinyl cleaners. It is our room but Garth Leerer of Musical Surroundings will be helping as he has done dozens of shows over the past 25 years and he is the distributor of the AMG table for the world outside of Europe.”

Please come for a listen if you are around. It looks like it will sound awesome.

The Stockholm Syndrome

We are held hostage by the sound in our room! We simply can’t tear ourself from listening to more and more music:) The MSB Analog DAC and S201 amplifier + data transport sound amazing with our Django L. Come visit us if you’re around. We’re in the ‘Grundström’ room at Lundqvist & Lindqvist‘s showrooms at Stockholm High End 2013.

New Competition

We’re so happy with our latest model, Django L that we want to give it away.

So we’ve created a simple competition, though you’ll need to know a little about us, and Sweden.

Click here to be in with a chance of winning a pair of Django L

Christmas came early

There’s only a few weeks to go and the excitement is building at Marten HQ. Las Vegas CES 2013 is just around the corner. (Oh, and there’s Christmas too).

We’re launching two new models at the CES – Django L and Coltrane Tenor.

Yes, that’s right – Django L is here! Following in response to last year’s success, Django XL, we had to build this. We’re really happy with the result. In fact it’s exceeded our expectations. This one is 2-way, with bass units from Norwegian SEAS and tweeter from Accuton.

We’re really proud of Coltrane Tenor too. It has newly designed bass units and we think it sounds great.

We had a sneak preview in our hometown of Gothenburg as we talked about in our previous post, but the world premiere will be at the CES. We hope you can visit us in Las Vegas, but if not, just follow all the action here.

We’ll be right back with even more stuff.

Behind the Scenes

These are the cables we use in both of our set ups, from Purist, good stuff.

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The Marten/Nagra room

We finished fine tuning it right on time. Here are a few quick shots of the room.

The main setup with Django XL, M•Amp Mono Power block and Nagra electronics on M•Furniture Audio Bench.

The premiere of the new Miles 5 that we will tell you more about soon.

Collage type panorama of the whole room. Click to enlarge.

We’ll be back soon with more news.

Highend 2012

The room is really getting there and it already sounds good. There’s always a slight worry before that one of the ‘links in the chain’ will not work or so, so now we can relax. At least until it opens tomorrow.

This is a bit like that huge storage space at the end of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’:)

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Great Django review from Paris!

‘Haute Fidélité‘, the prestigious HIFI magazine wrote:

The latest chord on the Marten guitar is called Django. It’s a beautiful instrument of music reproduction and it’s particularly well-equipped at the technical level. The quality of finish has the same prestige as the other achievements of the manufacturer. All this for a price as unexpected as reasonable for a Marten loudspeaker. A great success.

We used Google Translate so it might not be the most accurate wording but you get the gist:)

Thank you very much to Monsieur Dominique Mafrand.

“Refined High End”

We just received this amazing review of our new Django loudspeaker in well renowned Norwegian Fidelity #56

“The speaker feels homogeneous from top to bottom, while the speed and the exemplary micro-dynamics provides an excellent crispness and detail to support themselves on a mountain of solid fundaments. Piano sounds amazingly natural and detailed.”

Very roughly translated, but you can imagine that we’re very happy about this:) Big thank you to Knut Vadseth och Trond Torgnesskar.

Stairway to Heaven

We’re upstairs in Sheraton Stockholm this weekend at the very cool HiFi show Stockholm High End.  Read More